Aeris

Both. I think that the game needs a lot of things, but more types of items and animals is not it for me. It doesn't really add anything beyond a higher item/creature count (and lag).

-1 Please, no, no more animals

Happy birthday! 🥳🌹

Magix

Would be neat. Anything that gives us more control over the feature would be good, really.

I've also experienced shifts in fighting stance, seemingly randomly since I've only noticed it upon logging in. But wouldn't at all surprise me if it happened during a disconnect and I just didn't notice because the GUI gave no indication.

Bump: Some of the item skins don't make a lot of sense if you can't put the items on display when you're not using them

Checking out the site on Josuha's stream: It's looking really good! You've got a nice and colourful party spot going there

Congratulations, well done!

It is never our intention to inconvenience any impalong when we set a slaying date, but I'll level with you: We typically don't delay slayings on account of one of them either. Impalongs often occupy entire weekends (or weeks), and the organizers and finders are people with schedules of their own. Finding a date that works for all parties isn't always an easy task. It is also worth pointing out that while we do have an established slaying deed we can only do so much to keep the uniques contained. Some of them sit nicely inside the mine for the most part, seemingly unaware of their upcoming beheading, while others do heavy property damage and have to be dealt with sooner rather than later. This one belongs to the latter category. (All this to say we didn't intend to be a bother - And we do hope the impalong goes well!)

Congratulations to all the winners! 🥳 As for the question: The important part when it comes to contest rules is that the winning submissions follow them as stated, so that all participants have the same opportunity and work with the same restrictions in mind. That seems to have been the case here, which is great!

You have offered no alternative explanation as to what your intentions are, or what you want, so we can only go by what you have actually written in the thread (and how you have responded to people's posts). You can hardly fault us for that. But fair enough, it's a relief to hear that all of us have misunderstood what you're after. What the 100 rift goal should be replaced with according to me is really not of relevance for the thread we're in, and I think it's unfair to take it that far off-topic. This discussion is already bordering what's relevant to the thread at hand, and that the Journal goal was mentioned to begin with was because it was pertinent to the underlying mechanics of the suggestion.

I began my posting in this thread by suggesting a solution for that, i.e. remove "100 rifts" from the Journal requirements and replace it with something enjoyable. You just didn't approve of that suggestion since your thinking is that everyone should suck it up for the sake of the Journal - Even though I literally suggested to make it so that people wouldn't have to do that. It's not enjoyable for people who don't like rifts to hang around while rift enthusiasts milk points at a rift, and it's not enjoyable for rift enthusiasts when people who don't enjoy rifts want to sacrifice hearts ASAP to end the rift. Replacing the 100 rift goal with something else is a solution that would satisfy everyone's needs. If you have a reason (that isn't self-serving) as for why that isn't good enough I'd like to hear it. And no: Forcing Freedom priests to play on Epic and Epic priests to play on Freedom is not a valid argument as for why people could "skip" the 100 rift goal - People play on the cluster they want to play on, and shouldn't be forced to play on the other.

Let's not pretend like every player has the opportunity to complete all of the goals: You know they don't. Even if you go to Epic as a Freedom player, to get around being a priest, to complete the improvement goals you're not guaranteed to be able to. If you don't play on Epic it'll be quite the scrounge to come up with all the materials needed to work on your goals. And if you chose not to play on Epic (or vice versa) you likely don't want to be spending a huge chunk of your time on that cluster just because the assumption is that either you do that or you suck up going to rifts. Can you ignore the Journal completely? Absolutely! ...But: If you want to complete the Journal and you can do the Rift goal, why wouldn't you? They literally put that in the Journal to encourage people to go to rifts. But when you go to rifts solely for the purpose of the Journal you're suddenly told you're playing the game the wrong way, and that you're "ruining rifts" for wanting them to be over as quickly as possible. Going to rifts as part of the Journal completion was a goal chosen for the players, not the other way around. People have been making the best of it by trying to endure them as best as they can, which oftentimes includes finishing them "early". Up until the rift rewards started being worth ingame moolah this didn't use to be a problem, since most rift enjoyers were understanding of the fact that the majority of players only show up at rifts to complete the Journal goal.

-1 A potential +1 if the goal is removed from the Journal and replaced with something actually enjoyable.